Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Punishment of Office-holders and Servants in Religious Institution :– (1) All Office-holders and Servants attached to a Religious Institution or in receipt of any emolument to perquisite from the institution shall, whether the Office or service is hereditary or not, be controlled by the Trustee and the Trustee may fine, suspend, remove or dismiss any of them for breach of trust, incapacity, disobedience of orders, neglect of duty, misconduct or other sufficient cause. (2) Any Office-holder or Servant punished by a Trustee under Sub-Section (1) may, within one month from the date of the communication of the order to him, appeal to the Assistant Commissioner whose order shall be final. (3) If any such Office-holder or Servant against whom an order, fine, suspension, removal or dismissal has been made by the Trustee or the Assistant Commissioner, as the case may be, disobeys such order, he shall, unless he shows reasonable cause to the satisfaction of the Commissioner to the contrary, be liable to pay to the 1[Endowment Fund] within such date as may be specified in the order such penalty not exceeding 1[two] hundred rupees and in case of default a daily fine not exceeding twenty rupees. The penalty to be paid by such person shall in no case be paid from the fund of the institution concerned. (4) If such penalty is not paid within the time fixed or within such further time as may be granted by the Commissioner, the Collector of the district, in which any property of the person against whom an order is made under Sub- Section (3) is situated, shall, on a requisition made to him by the Commissioner, recover the amount as if it were an arrear of land revenue.